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  • The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS): an introduction

    The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS) is modeled after the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). The purpose of AIRS is to: - identify...

    International Center for Academic Integrity

    2012

  • Academic Integrity Assessment Guide

    The Academic Integrity Assessment Guide was developed in 1999-2001 by the International Center for Academic Integrity with funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Twelve campuses across the country provided the Center with practical experience...

    International Center for Academic Integrity

    2012

  • Higher education, corruption and reform

    Educational corruption is problem in every country, particularly at the college and university level. With illustrations drawn from the United States, this article considers what "basic principles" should shape efforts to deter, expose, and penalize...

    Johnson, Vincent

    2012

  • Newspaper

    Wikipedia tops list of plagiarized sources

    USA

    Press

    David Nagel - Campus Technology

    The study "Plagiarism and the Web" analyzed more than 33.5 million papers submitted to the Turnitin service from June 2010 to June 2011. In those papers, iParadigms' researchers found 128 million "content matches" from a wide variety of Web sources.

  • Newspaper

    For-profit college group sued as U.S. lays out wide fraud

    USA

    Press

    Tamar Lewin - The New York Times

    The Department of Justice and four states filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation's second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011.

  • Diploma and accreditation mills: exposing academic credential abuse

    This report published by Verifile Limited in January 2010 exposes a multi-billion dollar international fake diploma fraud. Alarmingly, the US was found to be the world's fake college capital. The Report indicates that 810 diploma mills have already...

    Ben Cohen, Eyal, Winch, Rachel

    Bedford, Verifile Limited, 2011

  • Newspaper

    To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery

    USA

    Press

    Steve Johnson - New York Times

    The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech – not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files – educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.

  • Newspaper

    Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance-Education Fraud

    USA

    Press

    Marc Parry - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    An Arizona woman pleads guilty to running an elaborate scam that highlights what federal authorities describe as the vulnerability of online education to financial-aid fraud. The scheme embroiled Rio Salado College, home to one of America's largest online programs, in a half-million-dollar con.

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